Baling-tack.



G. W. FURTH. BALING TACK;

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Attorneys GEORGE W R FCL waAaa1am a 1 BALINCir-TACK.

' 1 Specification of Letters eateries" afe tea S pt, 3,1914,

Application filed June 12 1912." Serial No. 703,307.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. FURTI-I, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Bailing-Tack, of which the following is a specification.

One ob ect of the present invention is to provide a baling tack so constructed that a prong located at one end of the device may be driven into the bale without danger to a binder-holding wing which is located at the other end of the device.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character having novel means for retaining the binder.

lVith the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows the invention in perspective, applied to a bale; Fig. 2 shows the invention in perspective detached from the bale; Fig. 8 is an end elevation; Fig. 4 is a side elevation; Fig. 5 is a top plan; Fig. 6- is a side elevation showing the tack mounted in place upon the bale at the inception of the driving operation; Fig. 7 is a sectional elevation showing the device in place in the bale, prior to the bending over of the binder-holding'wing; Fig. 8 is a sectional elevation showing the device in binder-holding position upon the bale.

The device herein disclosed comprises a body 1, ordinarily a flat sheet of metal, the body 1 being provided at one end with an angularly disposed, binder-receiving wing 2, the edges 3 of which converge toward the body 1. Adjacent the wing 2, the edges of the body 1 converge as shown at 4, to form binder-receiving seats 5. Projecting from the opposite end of the body 1 are prongs 6 of which there may be any number, the outer edges of the prongs being parallel, and the inner edges of the prongs converging toward the longitudinal center of the body 1.

The prong 6 andthe wing 2 project in opposite directions; from the body 1. The prongs. 6 are approximately parallel to the wing 2, the prongs and the wing being acutely disposed with respect to the bodyl. The prongs 6 are somewhat longer than the wing 2. 1

In operation, the tack is placed upon the material 7 as shown in Fig. 6, the free ends of the prongs 6 and the angle defined by the wing 2 and the body 1 resting upon the material. It is to be noted that the free end of the wing 2 lies between two parallel planes, one of which touches the free ends of the prongs 6 and the base of the wing 2, the other of which touches the line of juncture between the body 1 and the prongs. Moreover, when the parts are positioned as shown in Fig. 6, the wing 2 extends at an angle to the vertical, and consequently to one side of the tool 8 whereby the prongs 6 are driven into the material 7. By reason of this fact, together with the further fact that the angle formed by the prongs 6 and by the body 1 is prominently presented to the tool 8, the tool 8 may be employed for driving the prongs into the material 7 without striking the wing 2. When the prongs 6 are embedded in the material, the prongs will stand approximately at right angles to the body 1 as shown in Figs. 7 and 8, the wing 2 gradually swinging into an approximately vertical position, as the prongs 6 are embedded in the material. I

When the parts are positioned as shown in Fig. 7, one end of the binder 9 is engaged in the seats 5, the binder being extended around the material 7 and the other end of the binder being engaged with the converging edges 3 of the wing 2, as shown in Fig. 7 The wing 2 is then beaten down into approximate parallelism with the body 1, as shown in Fig. 8, thus retaining the ends of the binder 9.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is A baling tack comprising a body provided at its extreme ends with a binder-re ceiving wing and a material-engaging prong extended in opposite directions and disposed in approximate parallelism, the angle defined by the body and the wing and the end and the prong will project beyond all other Witnesses:

of the material-engaging prong constituting In testimony that I claim the foregoing as means for supporting the tack upon the mamy own, I have hereto affixed. my signature terial, and the prong beinglongerthan the in the presence of two Witnesses.

Wing whereby the angle defined by the body GEORGE W. FURTI-I.

portions of the tack and be presented promi- I R. T; Nn'r'rLE'roN, nently to receive a hammer blow. Jnssrn B. FURTH.

Copies of thispatent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). O. 

